Serra Demir

A DREAM INTERPRETER PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF ART

“Art is a reflection of my attempt to dissolve the boundaries between reality and dreams.”

BORN ON JULY 17, 1998, IN IZMIT, KOCAELI, SERRA DEMIR DISCOVERED HER
CONNECTION TO ART AT AN EARLY AGE. AFTER GRADUATING WITH HIGH HONORS
IN PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO FROM THE FINE ARTS AT YILDIZ TECHNICAL
UNIVERSITY, DEMIR DELVED DEEPLY INTO HER ART CAREER AND IS CURRENTLY
PREPARING FOR HER MASTER’S STUDIES.
AT THE CORE OF HER ART LIES A POWERFUL SOURCE OF INSPIRATION: DREAMS.
THE ABSTRACT WORLD OF DREAMS MATERIALIZES BOLDLY IN SERRA’S
PAINTINGS, CREATING A PERSONAL UNIVERSE WHERE IMAGES TRANSFORM INTO
A TANGIBLE REALITY. HER WORKS INVITE THE VIEWER ON A JOURNEY THROUGH
BOTH CONSCIOUS AND SUBCONSCIOUS REALMS. CHARACTERS STAND ON HER
STAGE AS ACTORS, SURROUNDED BY AN ATMOSPHERE THAT AIMS TO NARRATE
ITS STORY THROUGH AN EMPATHETIC CONNECTION WITH THE AUDIENCE.
DRAWING ON INFLUENCES FROM SURREALISM AND SYMBOLISM, RECURRING
MOTIFS SUCH AS FIGURES CURLED IN EMBRYONIC POSES, HELPING HANDS
EMERGING FROM CHECKERBOARD FLOORS, AND HALF-COMPLETED RUBIK’S
CUBES APPEAR FREQUENTLY IN HER PIECES. THESE SYMBOLS SERVE AS
PORTALS, INVITING VIEWERS TO STEP INTO THE WORLD OF DREAMS. THE
NARRATIVE SHE WISHES TO TEL...